Trick pencil



s. s. ADAMS TRICK PENCIL March 12, 1946.

Filed Nov. 27, 1944 EgL/ E a m l v/// NVEN C7 Jar-en 5. fZdams Patented Mar. 12, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BRICK PENCIL Soren S. Adams, Asbury Park, N. J.

Application November 27, 1944, Serial No. 565,284

2 Claims.

This invention relates to a novelty and more particularly to a trick pencil, pen or the like.

An object is to provide a'simple trick that anyone can practice, and which is embodied in a unique pencil, pen or the like.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a trick pencil or the like which enables a trick to be practiced in a simple act of one person hand ng the pencil to another.

A further object of this invention is to provide a trick pencil or the like having a. portion removable by a sleight of hand movement of the person handing the pencil to another person whereby that person cannot do what the former did with the pencil prior to its transfer.

Yet another obiect of this invention is to Provide a trick pencil or the like which is so constructed that one person may stand it up on end, but which in the act of handing the pencil to another person is susceptible to a sleight of hand movement so that a portion can be removed from the pencil thereby precluding the other person from thereafter standing the pencil on end.

In accordance with the general features of this invention there is provided in a novelty pencil or the like including an elongated body formed so that by itself it is incapable of being stood vertically on end on a supporting surface, a cap l ke sleeve for the end of the body and having a fiat outer end surface cooperable with a flat su porting surface to support the body in a perpendicular position thereon: this sleeve being readily removable endwise from the body by a sleight of hand movement as the pencil is handed to another person whereby the impression is given that no alterat ons have been made in the pencil in such handling.

Still another feature of the invention relates to the provision of an article of manufacture which may take the form of a pencil, pen or the like and which has a false tip removable by a sleight of hand action in the process of handing the penoil to another person so that the other person cannot thereafter perform the trick of standing the pencil in a perpendicular position on a support.

Other objects and features of this invention will more fully appear from-the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing which illustrates a single embodiment thereof and in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my novel trick pencil;

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 with the false tip or cap-like sleeve omitted;

Figure 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken on line III-III looking upwardly; and

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary cross-sectional view taken on the line IV-IV of Figure 3, looking in a direction indicated by the arrows.

As shown on the drawing:

At the outset it is to be noted that while I have illustrated my trick as being applied to a pencil, the invention is not to be thereby limited since it is clear that it is applicable to other elongated objects, such as pens, sticks and the like.

The reference character l0 designates generally an elongated object or stem, which may be the usual pencil stem having the customary lead. therein. One end of this stem as shown at H is slightly reduced so as to provide an annular sh0u1- der I2. This reduced end is covered by a sleeve of suitable material, such for example, as plastic,

which for illustration may be in the form of a Celluloid. This sleeve is designated by the reference character l3, and is permanently affixed to the pencil as best shown in Figure 4. The end surface of the sleeve i3 is slightly rounded at M so that the pencil is thus incapable of being supported on end by itself.

Cooperable with the above described end of the stem 10 is a removable sleeve l5, which may likewise be made of light plastic material and is of such length and finish as to look like the end 13 of the body embraced thereby. This cap-like sleeve or tip has a substantially flat end surface l5 so that when this sleeve 15 is on the pencil, the pencil may be stood on end on a flat supporting surface.

In practicing the trick. one person first stands the pencil, pen or the like on end on a flat supporting surface. Then he requests another person to do likewise with the pencil. However, in handing the pencil to that person, the first person by a sleight of hand movement easily slips the sleeve l5 off the pencil so that the other person thereafter cannot successfully stand the pencil on end.

From the foregoing it is clear that the applicant has provided a new composite article of manufacture which is illustrated as being in the form of a pencil comprising principally two parts, one of which is a male member insertable endwise into a female member and wherein the female member may be removed by a sleight of hand moVement from the male member to defeat the subsequent standing of the male member or stem of a pencil on end to the complete bewilderment of the person upon whom the trick is being practiced.

I claim as my invention:

1. A novelty device for sleight of hand amusement purposes including an elongated body having an end surface that puts the body in unstable equilibrium when resting upon it on a horizontal surface, said end surface so closely approaching one which is perpendicular to the axis of the body as to deceive a casual observer, and a removable member closely engageable with said end surface and so closely matching it in appearance that its sleight of hand removal will be undetected, said removable member having an end surface affording a stable base for supporting the body upright on the horizontal surface.

2. A novelty device for sleight of hand amusement purposes including an elongated body having an end surface that puts the body in unstable equilibrium when resting upon it on a horizontal surface, said end surface so closely approaching one which is perpendicular to the axis of the body as to deceive a casual observer, and a removable member closely engageable with said end surface and so closely matching it in appearance that its sleight of hand removal will be undetected, said removable member having an end surface affording a stable base for supporting the body upright on the horizontal surface, said end surface and said member having a corresponding appearance which differs from that of the body.

SOREN S. ADAMS. 

